Pen cleaner and holder



(No Model.)

- J.`EDSON.

` PEN CLEANER AND HOLDER. No. "380,650, Patented Apr. 3, 1888.

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JACOB EDSON, OF BOSTON, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN S. RICE, OF CAMBRIDGEPORT, MASSACHUSETTS.

PEN CLEANER AND HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION formingjpart of Letters Patent No. 380,650, dated April 3, 1888.

Application filed January 16, 1888. Serial No. 260,521. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JACOB EDsoN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Pen Cleaners and Holders, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specitication.

This invention relates to improvements in 1o pen cleaner and holder and paper Weight combined, and it is carried out as follows,-

reference being had tothe accompanying drawings, where- Figure l represents a plan View of the inr5 vention. Fig. 2 represents a front elevation,

shown partly in section. Fig. 3 represents an end View; and Fig. 4 represents a crosssection on the broken line A B,shown in Fig. 1.

Similar letters refer to similar parts wherzo ever they occur on the different parts of the drawings.

a is the block, composed of a series of vertical sheets of paper or other suitable fibrous or textile material, which sheets are laid side by side and preferably inclosed by means of a suitable binding-strip, b, as is common in devices of this kind. Said block is reversible, so that after its upper end has been used for the purpose of holding and cleaning pens 3o it may be reversed and its opposite side used for the same purpose.

The paper block ay is inserted and adapted to rest in the base or socket c, that is preferably made of cast metal, glass, or other heavy material, so that the deviceY may serve as a paper-weiglit in addition to its use as a pen cleaner and holder. The socket or base c is made of increased size at its bottom, to giveit great stability, and curved or tapering toward its upper end, as shown in the drawings,

to make it light in such upper end, and when so made if no other devices were added it would be difiicult to take hold of it and lift it whenever its position on the writing-table was to be changed. To obviate this difficulty,

I make on two of its opposite sides the finger projections o' c', as shown, which will enable the operator to take hold of the base or socket 0, Whenever so desired, to change its position 5o on the table or other piece of furniture where it is used.

For the purpose of preventing the lower corners of the block a from being crushed or injured when inserted in the base or socket c, I make in the bottom of the latter a cir- '55 cuniferential groove, c, as shown in Figs. 2 and 4 and in dotted lines in Figs. 1 and 3, which will permit the block a to be inserted in the base c without causing injury to the lower corner edges of said block a and allowing the middle portion of said block to rest on the central raised portion, c3. in the bottom of said frame c, as shown in Figs. 2: and 4. Itis also essential that the block a shall be capable of being quickly reversed in its posi tion within the base or socket c, and for this purpose I make on two opposite sides or ends of the latter the cut-away portions c4 c, ot' suitable size or shape, by which arrangement the sides or ends of the block a are partially exposed, to enable the operator to insert his or her fingers in such cutaway portions and thus grasp the block a from two opposite sides or ends to permit of its removal or reversion, as the case may be.

Having thus fully described the nature, construction, and operation of my invention, I wish to secure by Letters Patent, and claim- 1. The reversible block a, in combination with the base or socket c, having tapering or curved sides and ends, as described, and having on two opposite sides the finger projections c c, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The reversible block a, in combination with the base or socket 0,'having on two opposite sides or ends the cut-away portions c4 c", as and for the purpose set forth.

3. The reversible block a, in combination with the base or socket c, having its bottom provided with the circumferential groove c" and central raised portion, cias and for the purpose set forth. j

4. The reversible block a, in combination with the base or socket c, having tapering or curved sides, as described, and having on two of its opposite sides or ends the nger projections or litters c c, the cnt-away por tions c4 c, and having in its bottom the circumferential groove c", substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereofl have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of'two sub scribing Witnesses, on this 14th day of January, A. D. 1888.

JACOB EDSON. Witnesses:

ALBAN ANDRN, HENRY CHADBOURN. 

